Integrative complexity fully mediates biculturalism’s effect on performance and creativity.

Evidence

Consistent with this argument, researchers have found that bicultural Israelis living in the United States as well as Asian American biculturals expressed more integratively complex thoughts (Tadmor, Tetlock, & Peng, 2009). In fact, when we went back and analyzed the integrative complexity of Israeli American managers in our field study on the effect of biculturalism on career performance and reputation, we found that integrative complexity completely mediated the link between bicultural identity and managerial performance and reputation. Furthermore, in the creativity study we conducted with bicultural MBA students at INSEAD, we found that students’ levels of integrative complexity—as measured across several different written assignments—again fully mediated the link between biculturalism and increased creativity. We also found that integrative complexity mediated the effect of biculturalism on new product creation (Tadmor et al., 2010). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2268

Consistent with this argument, researchers have found that bicultural Israelis living in the United States as well as Asian American biculturals expressed more integratively complex thoughts (Tadmor, Tetlock, & Peng, 2009). In fact, when we went back and analyzed the integrative complexity of Israeli American managers in our field study on the effect of biculturalism on career performance and reputation, we found that integrative complexity completely mediated the link between bicultural identity and managerial performance and reputation. Furthermore, in the creativity study we conducted with bicultural MBA students at INSEAD, we found that students’ levels of integrative complexity—as measured across several different written assignments—again fully mediated the link between biculturalism and increased creativity. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2268

Categorization

• QUESTION: The mediation results are correlational (measured across written assignments), not experimental — worth checking how causal claims are supported here.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2268